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. 2022 Feb 16;14(4):1000. doi: 10.3390/cancers14041000

Table 2.

Lifetime risk of gastric and small bowel cancers in Lynch syndrome by pathogenic variant [7,9,10,11,12].

Pathogenic Variant Affected Individuals, Lifetime Risk General Population, Lifetime Risk
Gastric Cancer
MLH1 5–7% 0.9%
MSH2 and EPCAM 0.2–9%
MSH6 ≤1–7.9%
PMS2 Inadequate data
Small Bowel Cancer
MLH1 0.4–11% 0.3%
MSH2 and EPCAM 1.1–10%
MSH6 ≤1–4%
PMS2 0.1–0.3%